Butter and lard cutter.



P. A. MALTAIS. BUTTER AND LARD CUTTER. APPLICATION FILED MAY 4. 1915.

Patented Jlily 31, 1917.

INVENTOR ATTORNEY PETER- A. MALTAIS, OF PASPEIBIAC, QUEBEC, CANADA.

BUTTER AND LARD CUTTER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented July 31, 1917.

Application filed May 4, 1916. Serial No. 95,511.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, PETER A. MALTAIS, a subject of the King of Great Britain, residing at Paspebiac, in the Province of Quebec and Dominion of Ganada,have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Butter and Lard Gutters, of which the following is a specification.

This invention has relation to implements for cutting butter, lard, etc., for use by merchants, and the nature and objects thereof will be readily apparent to those skilled in the art to which it appertains in the light of the following explanation of the accompanying drawings, illustrating what I now believe to be the preferred embodiment or mechanical expression of my invention from among other forms and arrangements, within the spirit thereof and the scope of the appended claims.

However, an object of the invention is to provide an implement of the character described and having relatively movable and co-acting cutters adapted to be engaged into the surface of a tub of butter or lard to remove a definite quantity therefrom in the form of a cake having a predetermined shape.

In addition to the foregoing my invention comprehends improvements in the details of construction and arrangement of parts, to be hereinafter described and particularly pointed out in the appended claims.

In the accompanying drawings, in which similar and corresponding parts are designated by the same characters of reference throughout the several views in which they appear Figure 1 is a view in side elevation of an implement constructed after the manner of my invention, and illustrating its operation in dotted lines, and

Fig. 2 is a view thereof in front elevation.

With reference to the drawings, 1 indicates a relatively stationary handle, slightly reduced at one end to receive thereon the socket 2, of a blade or cutter 3, which is substantially rectangular in conformation, and having its flat face disposed at an angle to the longitudinal axis of the handle. The object of so disposing the blade 3 with relation to the handle, is to permit said blade to enter the material to be cut, thesurface of said material being indicated at 4: in Fig. 1 and at an angle thereto. A movable handie 5 is pivotally connected to the handle 1 by means of links 6, whereby said handles may be separated and -moved relatively to each other, being retained throughout such movement in parallel relation. The lower end of the handle 5 is reduced to receive the socket 7 of a blade or cutter 8 which is connected to said socket by means of an integrally formed connecting portion 9. With reference to Fig. 1 it will be seen that the blade 8 is disposed in a plane which is at an acute angle to the plane of the cutter 3, and this same anguluar relation is main tained in whatever relative position the blades may assume.

To proceed with the operation of the implement, reference is had to Fig. 1 in which it will be noted that the blade 3 has been entered into the surface of the material to be cut and at an angle thereto, the handle 1 being disposed in a vertical position. While retained in such position, the handle 5 is depressed ultimately bringing the blade 8 into engagement with the surface of the material and its lower edge in engagement with the edge of the blade 3, inclosing a somewhat triangular volume indicated at 10. By raising both handles simultaneously, that portion 10 of the material inclosed may be removed for deposit in a receptacle. The various positions assumed by the handle 5 and its blade is clearly illustrated in dotted lines in Fig. 1. It will be apparent that the cutting blades may be disposable in any other than the angular relation illustrated,

so as to cut and remove portions of material of other shapes.

While I have illustrated and described my invention with some degree of particularity, I realize that in practice various alterations may be made therein for the purpose of employing the principles herein set forth, and I therefore reserve the right and privilege of changing the form of details of construction, and otherwise altering the arrangement of the correlated parts, without departing from the spirit of the invention or the scope of the appended claims.

Having thus fully described my invention what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is 1. An implement of the character described comprising a pair of handles, means connecting the handles together to provide for relative movement thereof in parallelism and for arcuate movement, and blades mounted thereon and adapted to be moved into mutual engagement by said handles to inelose a definite quantity of material between said blades.

2. An implement of the character described comprising a pair of handles, links connecting the handles to afford relative movement thereof in parallelism, and blades mounted on the handles at angular positions with respect to the longitudinal axes of the handles, and adapted to be brought into engagement with each other and in angular relation when said handles are moved, to engage the material to be out, and to inclose a definite quantity between said blades.

In testimony whereof I afiix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

PETER A. MALTAIS.

Witnesses:

F. C. VANTOUR, E. CORIOEAU.

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